Fancy a bit of butchering? Why let others do it when you can do it yourself? Taking an animal apart isn’t as simple as consuming one for dinner, but it is made much, much easier with the help of Ryan Farr’s Whole Beast Butchery: The Complete Visual Guide to Beef, Lamb, and Pork ($40). It’s as visual as one can get (it has around 500 photos), complete with the amazingly-detailed steps on how to go about in dissecting beef, lamb, and pork. Ryan Farr’s masterful expertise of butchery imparts you with the techniques, tools, and all the other essential know-how. Plus, it’s got recipes.

Before dropping off your donation box to Goodwill, pick up a copy of Cy Tymony’s Super Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things ($11) and convert your junk into handy treasures. This book contains a ton of do-it-yourself inventions, complete with step-by-step instruction and illustrations to turn common items and devices into something extraordinary. To pique your curiousity, we’re sure you didn’t know you can make plastic out of milk, a radio from a penny, a boomerang from a bookmark, a boat from milk cartons and even a plane using sleeping bags.

Your colleagues will reconsider the office as one of the safest place to be once you get your mits on the Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction 2 ($11). Thanks to John Austin, they’ll be constantly watching their backs knowing that you’ve amassed small-scale arsenals fashioned from goodies looted from the supply closet. So next time someone doesn’t return your stapler, refill the printer with paper or take your favorite chicken sammich from the break-room fridge, you’re free to unleash hell.

Enjoy the game of kings in a whole new level with the unique Bullet Chess Set ($300). Each piece of this wicked set is made using spent .223 bullet shell casings. The White pieces are crafted from steel casings, while the Black pieces are made from brass casings. Besides the finely-detailed pieces, the Bullet Chess Set features a board made from a solid piece of red oak with black walnut and red oak wooden squares.

While there’s no real cure for a hangover, there’s definitely no shortage of grub to take the edge off. Along with great recipes to help you survive the day after a night of getting tipsy, The Hungover Cookbook ($8) also provides a series of visual and multiple-choice questions to help you diagnose and categorize your level of hurt and offers the best course of action.

Bring fun times to your lawn or backyard with the Bocce Ball Set from Restoration Hardware ($60). A great game for family and friend, this set includes four Oxblood red and four Navy blue bocce balls, one target ball, and a leather measuring device, all packed in a rustic crate with rope handles and brass hardware.